Koh-i-noor: India says it should not claim priceless diamond from UK

The Indian government has told the Supreme Court that it mustn't try and reclaim the valuable Koh-i-noor diamond from Britain.
The stone came into British hands within the mid-19th Century, and forms a part of the crown jewels on show at the Tower of London.
Ownership of the far-famed gem is associate degree emotional issue for several Indians, World Health Organization believe it had been taken by Brits.
However, the solicitor-general aforementioned was "neither taken nor forcibly taken".
Ranjit Kumar aforementioned the 105-carat diamond had been "gifted" to the archipelago company by the previous rulers of geographic region in 1849.
The case is being detected by the Supreme Court once associate degree Indian organization filed a petition asking the court to direct the Indian government to bring back the diamond.
The Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's valuable crown, containing the far-famed Koh-i-noor diamond, rests on her coffin on a frame force by the Royal Horse Artillery to City of Westminster Hall.

The diamond was displayed on high of the late Queen Mother's crown once her coffin lay in state once her death in 2002
The court continues to be considering the problem, and aforementioned it failed to need to dismiss the petition because it might "stand within the way" of future tries to bring back things that when belonged to Asian country.
Mr Kumar, representing the Indian government, aforementioned he would refer to the government minister on the problem and frame a response among six weeks, the days of Asian country newspaper reportable.
Tushar Gandhi, the great-grandson of independence leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aforementioned a number of years past that it ought to be came as "atonement for the colonial past".
However, sequent British prime ministers have refused to try to to therefore. last, David Cameron aforementioned that returning it might set associate degree "unworkable precedent".
"If you say affirmative to 1, you suddenly realize Brits depository would be empty," he told Indian media throughout a visit to the country in 2010.
The diamond was last worn by the late queen dowager and was displayed on high of her crown once her coffin lay in state once her death in 2002.